This one has been hard to contain for the last few months, but with the holidays behind us and the new year begun, I can finally share some exciting news.
Bland Landscaping Company has acquired Foster Lake & Pond Management, Inc., and the two companies will continue to operate as respective subject matter experts with enhanced synergistic capabilities to meet the overlapping needs of our customers throughout our service area.
I have known the management team at FLPM for nearly twenty years, and I have always considered them friends and trusted business associates. I truly cannot explain how exciting this is to me. As a lifelong fisherman, scuba diver, and outdoors enthusiast, I have always loved anything to do with fish and aquatics. In 2006, I became one of the first class of NC State Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Certified Stormwater BMP (now SCM) Maintainers and Inspectors. We explored the discipline but recognized that we needed more time to be ready to pursue it, so we started working more closely with the team at FLPM.
I have always believed these two disciplines would have synergistic benefits to the needs of the customer who owns, manages, or develops real estate and infrastructure. Our teams have, can, and will continue to work closely to provide integrated management of SCM devices, lakes, ponds, and fisheries, all within the broader definition of managing the landscapes to which they belong.
I would like to give special thanks to Johnny Foster, Jordan Saukaitis, Mitchell Morton, Ryan Stanley, and their teams for their trust in us, the immense amount of work that went into this transaction, and the ongoing integrations. I would also like to give a much-deserved BRAVO to Matt Bland, Joe Ritchie, Adam Gilpatrick, ELBA “MILLIE” DUKES, Laurie Jarman, David Fulmer, and their teams for the massive lift it required to close this deal between Thanksgiving and Christmas. On the professional side, I applaud Grant Anderson, Matt Klomparens, and their respective teams for running an efficient and timely due diligence process under a tight closing timeline. Without the team at Prospect Partners, none of this would have been possible. Thank you for believing in us, Brad O’Dell, Erik Maurer, and Kyle Slovis.
If you have general questions about acquisitions, our plans, or the synergistic nature of our combined abilities, please feel free to contact me.
Are you a past or present client of FLPM who would like to be contacted directly for any reason? Please reach out to Mitchell Morton.
Past or present BLC clients who would like to discuss integrating your Stormwater and Grounds Management services can reach out to your primary point of contact or Joe Ritchie. If you are a prospective client who would like to discuss integrating your Stormwater and Grounds Management services anywhere in The Carolinas, please contact Tyner Tew.